European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 21 Dallas ends Denver dream new Orleans up the Dallas stirring memories of Ihler doomsday defense of destroyed Denv ers title dream sunday by intercepting a record tying four passes to capture the National football league title with an error filled 2710 super bowl Xii in a mistake filled game that resembled a Blooper bowl rather than a super the cowboys broke things open on a 45yard touchdown pass from Roger slam Bach to Butch Johnson in the third period and went on to end the american Confer ence domination of the title the cowboys second super bowl Victory ended a string of five consecutive acc Dallas beat Broncos at own game new Orleans Dpi the Denver Broncos were victims of their own weapon in Ihler 2710 super bowl loss to the Dallas All the Broncos powerful defense repeatedly forced turnovers that carried the team into the playoffs for the first time in its in but in the game for the nil the Broncos Guske up a record tying four interceptions and lost the Ball four times on fumbles for a total of eight played the Type of game we usually said quarterback Craig the former Cowboy who threw All of Denv ers they beat us at our own we had Loo Many sometimes you play a bad game and 1 certainly played one i guess in not real Good in the super three times la u71 playing for the cowboys in the 1970 Morton threw a the record three interceptions in the cowboys 1613 Over Lime loss to Baltimore in super bowl we came a Long Way this said no one expected us to be we just didst play Well Well have to Start next year and try to gel Here Morton was replaced by Norris Mese late in the third Quarter after defensive ended too tall Jones dropped what would have been Dallas fifth interception of a Morton Weese immediately look the Broncos 26 Yards for a touchdown on Fob lattes one Yard run to make the score Craig quite get us said red Denver Rookie head coach and the acc coach of the we thought we could get More Maneule Tabili to and Harris is Good at making things we talked about doing it at half its not said Morion when asked about being yanked from the red probably was trying to get some thing 1 had no he came in for one play to set up some things and he made a Good play on that the acc player of the year in his lint season at threw Only eight interceptions All season and was not intercepted More than twice in any one he said that the bruised left hip that Pugues him in the playoffs didst give him any Tuer said the key to ure game was the continued on Pooe m triumphs in the title game and was Only the fourth pfc Victory in the 12 super with Dallas loading 133 in the third the cowboys pin the game out of reach when Sta Uhach launched a Long pans Down the Middle from his 40 and a Reserve wide receiver from Calif Omla made a divine catch off his fingertips in the end the cowboys added an insurance Midway through the final period after re covering the record 10th Fumble of the fullback Robert Newhouse took n pitch out and threw a 29yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Golden Richards Denver roared Back after the touchdown pass to Johnson when Rick Upchurch re turned the Kic coff a super howl record 87 Yards to the Dallas Norris who replaced acc player of the year Craig Morton two ploys brought Denver to a id deficit when he sent former Cowboy Jim Jensen 11 Yards to the one on a fourth and Ono and Rookie Bob Lytic went Over for the neither club could mount any real of sense after that with their primary Offen Sive threats on the the ineffective who became the first quarterback in super bowl history to be intercepted four of teamed on the while the cowboys lost pfc Llo Okle of the year Tony Dorset with a knee sprain and quarterback staubach briefly with a hand Dorset was injured late in the third period whim he ran around right end and staubach Hurt his hand after he was stacked for the fifth Lime and punter Danny White replaced staubach until the former Heisman trophy Winner resumed with four minutes to go in the Dorset returned to the Bench after being taped but played no playing the super bowl indoors for the first Lime before tans at the Louisi Ana both clubs set records for the cowboys broke la Clr own record for most penalties in a super bowl Dallas Reserve safety Handy Hughes intercepted one pass and recovered two Fum Bles and the 10 fumbles by both clubs also was a staubach completed 17 of 22 passes for 178 Yards in lifting Dallas to its 15th Victory in it games this making the first playoff appearance in the franchises 16year finished defensive end Harvey who had 23 quarterback sacks during the regular and defensive tackle Randy White super bowl statistics find Cru Fri ural Yordt pm Atoki l Vronch ii ii maj 2v11i i ii if 111 11h 141 tit h ii ii 140 individual Leader Monett Tvr swum t army Lrata who ill Onui t no Rtuh n Malhi attn to in it tort Durm hic Mca Thrift a attn n there goes another one Denver quarterback Craig Portem i in dark Jersey watches As one of Hli posset is intercepted by a Dallas defensive Back in super bowl watching with him Are Dallas defensive Lack Randy White Lett and Lafety Charlie Waters and an unidentified Denver Morton bad a super bowl record tying four intercepted As the cowboys woo photo were named As co winners of the award As the games outstanding in a sloppily played game that resembled a preseason exhibition More than a world Dallas look a in Lead by intercepting Morton a record four times and recovering three it could have been except for the that Efren Herrera missed thereof five Field goal the jittery at first when they fumbled three limes Early in the survived the errors and finally broke through when Charlie Waters and Randy White pressured Morton into passing Blind continued on Page 23 bronc safety Hod maligned Cowboy catching Dallas receivers grateful to Bernie new Orleans a Dallas wide receivers Golden Butch Johnson and Drew Pearson Sal at their dressing room stalls smiling and Hanking Bernard Dallas 2710 super bowl Victory was fashioned by a crackling defense and two great catches by a wide receiver corps maligned by Denver safety Jackson ear Lier in the Jackson can go study those films now and find out what kind of receivers we said All he did out there was smile a Butch beat him and Golden beat Johnson caught a 45yard scoring pass from Roger staubach in the third period for a Dallas then running Back Robert Newhouse uncorked a Byard touchdown toss to Richards after the rally ing Broncos had managed to Cut the deficit to was playing with a cracked thumb when i made my we thought we could beat Jackson said who soared Over the then dropped the i fell i had broken the plane of the goal said i heard Jackson he sure talks a Richards said the fullback pass from the first time Dallas had used it this look advantage of he told me i want very Good and run Ning kind of funny Early in the said i never heard another word out of him after Jackson had called Richards a once in awhile receiver and said Kansas cily had better receivers than the the Dallas which had a picnic with tour interceptions off former team mate Craig dominated the Bron cos offence until Reserve quarterback Norris Weese moved the team in the second i predicted that Craig last the game because of his Lack of said safely cuff he just handle the beating Craig really made in i was glad 10 see them Lake him out of there because i knew if he had he could Complete the Dallas linebacker Thomas Henderson i told Craig once to throw me he was throwing them to everybody Randy Berje Aaron Kyle and Mark Washington picked off Morton passes for a super bowl Craig was taking his sacks like he was during the regular said Dallas coach Tom he was putting the Ball up for i was surprised he Morton took so Many running Back Tony who scored the games first touchdown on a 3yard this was sweeter than the no Lional title we won at in Kinda surprised they dont have any continued the cowboys Are All i like it like the Orange crush is Orange Dallas Strong safety Charlie Waters i had the flu so bad i barely made most of the team had in Early in the we didst say much about i want surprised they took Craig it just want his Pearson reached Over to shake hands with but Johnson look at this thumb swelling 1 think till Pearson but you Haw a lot of time for in to get i think ill Send Jackson part of my winners
